You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.